Acoustic Profiles: An Acoustic Ecology of the Cinema

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Randolph Jordan (Lecturer in the Humanities, Lecturer in the Humanities, Champlain College St-Lambert, Montreal)

Acoustic Profiles

An Acoustic Ecology of the Cinema

Randolph Jordan (Lecturer in the Humanities, Lecturer in the Humanities, Champlain College St-Lambert, Montreal)

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Oxford University Press Inc
08 November 2023

Music reviews & criticism; Electronic music; Electronic musical instruments; Techniques of music & music tutorials

Series: OXFORD MUSIC/MEDIA SERIES

In Acoustic Profiles, author Randolph Jordan proposes a new model for image-sound analysis that incorporates the vocabulary and methods of environmental studies, specifically exploring the potential of a model based on acoustic ecology. Jordan uses close readings of films to connect the diverse fields of architecture, environmental studies, art history, the history of modernity, and media studies through the tenets of acoustic ecology. In relating ways of thinking about sound from acoustic ecology to film studies and vice versa, Acoustic Profiles takes an interdisciplinary approach to inspire readers to experience cinematic art as a motivator of greater environmental purposes and to understand the role of the media in achieving those purposes.

The book's method is referred to as acoustic profiling, a theoretical tool for hearing how filmmakers articulate spatial dimensions in their works. To that end, the book demonstrates how the creative use of media technologies in different fields can be understood relationally through the ecological issues that connect them, revivifying acoustic ecology for media studies while broadening the latter's ecological scope. The book provides a tool kit for readers to hear films with new ears, to think critically about this new listening practice, and to extend that engagement beyond the walls of the screening room by opening works of audiovisual media up to the consideration of soundscape research.

By: Randolph Jordan (Lecturer in the Humanities Lecturer in the Humanities Champlain College St-Lambert Montreal)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 156mm, Width: 235mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 504g
ISBN: 9780190226077
ISBN 10: 0190226072
Series: OXFORD MUSIC/MEDIA SERIES
Pages: 254
Publication Date: 08 November 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Acoustic Profiling Chapter 1: Audible Transparency: Modernist Acoustic Design in Jacques Tati's Playtime Chapter 2: Immersive Reflexivity: Documenting the Inaudible in Peter Mettler's Picture of Light Chapter 3: Reflective Empathy: Soundscape Composition and the Spatialization of Music in Gus Van Sant's Last Days Chapter 4: The Schizophonographic Imagination: Visualizing the Myth of Sonic Fidelity in David Lynch's Twin Peaks Chapter 5: Unsettled Listening: Tracking Vancouver's Contested Acoustic Profiles across Media Conclusion: A Position Piece Index

Randolph Jordan teaches in the Humanities department at Champlain College in Montreal. His research, teaching, and creative practice reside at the intersections of sound studies, film studies, and critical geography. He has published widely on the ways in which the fields of acoustic ecology and film sound studies can inform each other, and is co-editor of Sound, Media, Ecology (2019). As a practitioner, his films and sound work have been presented internationally, most recently as part of the team behind the Impostor Cities exhibition, Canada's official entry to the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale.